Logically Speaking, Period 6, 12 May '09

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Mohinder had pulled the classroom chairs into a broad semi-circle and was sitting on his desk, reading through his class list when the students showed up.

When everyone had taken a seat, Mohinder started off with introductions. "Good afternoon. This is the workshop for Logically Speaking - if you signed up then you should be here, and if you are here then hopefully the converse is true. My name is Mohinder Suresh, when I'm not here I'm a doctor of genetics from New York. Now, you know who I am I'd like to know your name, your point of origin and what would be the first thing you'd rescue if your home was burning."

After that was completed, Mohinder started passing round a handout. "We'll start with humour. What it is that makes us laugh - and that can be a product of our history environment and so on. But much of it follows a logical pattern. From the juxtasposition of unrelated ideas, puns or plays on sounds, practical jokes undercutting someone's dignity to the more contrived arts of coincidence and mistaken identity in comedy."

"Now, I want to try and make each other laugh. Verbally, please. Then try and figure out why that joke worked," said Mohinder, adding, "Oh, and Claire Butler? assuming she's here I'd like to speak to you after class."

[OCD is up. Have at!]

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Re: Joking 1 (LS)

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

Trying not to chuckle again, Valentine realized that what it was was the prop.

"One cushion's loss is
Another's gain of humor
Joy is in the thing."

Re: Joking 1 (LS)

[yakkoyaks.livejournal.com]

"It is logical
This lesson is successful
Logic plus laughs, yay!"

Clearly, Yakko learned something today. It's possible that the thing he learned was that he could get away with using whoopee cushions in class.

Re: Joking 1 (LS)

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

Once a hiaku ended in a yay, Valentine had reached her limit, chuckling a little and shaking her head. "I can't top that one," she assented.

Re: Joking 1 (LS)

[yakkoyaks.livejournal.com]

"Aaaaaaaaaaaand I made you laugh a couple times. What do I win?" Yakko asked.

Re: Joking 1 (LS)

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

Valentine considered it for a moment. Then she got up from her chair, walked around the kitty....puppy...thing, picked up the whoopee cushion, and then brought it back, setting it in front of him before sitting back down herself.

"This great whoopee cushion! Congratulations!"

Re: Joking 1 (LS)

[yakkoyaks.livejournal.com]

"Heeeey, this looks just like the whoopee cushion I was using earlier," Yakko pointed out.

Re: Joking 1 (LS)

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

"You shouldn't look a gift whoopee cushion in the bad math equation on its back, you know."

Re: Joking 1 (LS)

[yakkoyaks.livejournal.com]

Yakko didn't hear that. He was too busy looking into the mouth of the whoopee cushion with a magnifying glass. "Sorry, what was that?"

Re: Joking 1 (LS)

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

Valentine shook her head, trying not to give him...it?... another laugh. "Nothing. Never mind."